Before the Nation : Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan


Susan L. Burns
Bok Engelsk 2003 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
North Carolina : : Duke University Press, , 2003.
Omfang
1 online resource (295 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Between Community and the Nation; 1 Late Tokugawa Society and the Crisis of Community; 2 Before the Kojikiden: The Divine Age Narrative in Tokugawa Japan; 3 Motoori Norinaga: Discovering Japan; 4 Ueda Akinari: History and Community; 5 Fujitani Mitsue: The Poetics of Community; 6 Tachibana Moribe: Cosmology and Community; 7 National Literature, Intellectual History, and the New Kokugaku; Conclusion: Imagined Japan(s); Appendix: ''Reading'' the Kojiki; Notes; Works Cited; Index. - Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of "nation."
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ISBN
0822331721. - 0822331837

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